Best historical romance films - Charts

USA, Drama / Romance

Directed by: James Cameron

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet

Japan, Animation / Drama

Directed by: Kazuhiro Furuhashi

Cast: Mayo Suzukaze, Hirotaka Suzuoki

Japan, Historical / Drama

Directed by: Yōji Yamada

Cast: Hiroyuki Sanada, 宮沢りえ

France, Biography / Historical

Directed by: Jean-Paul Rappeneau

Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Anne Brochet

France / Italy, Adventure / Romance

Directed by: Bernard Borderie

Cast: Gérard Barray, Mylène Demongeot

China, Drama / Historical

Directed by: Yimou Zhang

Cast: Ziyi Zhang, Hong-lei Sun

UK / USA, Drama / Romance

Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Rouben Mamoulian

Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton

UK, Drama / Romance

Directed by: Trevor Nunn

Cast: Helena Bonham Carter, Cary Elwes

USA, Action / Adventure

Directed by: Kevin Reynolds

Cast: Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman

France / Italy, Adventure / Romance

Directed by: Bernard Borderie

Cast: Gérard Barray, Mylène Demongeot

Japan, Animation / Drama

Directed by: Kazuhiro Furuhashi

Cast: Mayo Suzukaze, Miki Fujitani

USA, Drama / Historical

Directed by: D.W. Griffith

Cast: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh

UK / Hungary, Drama / Historical

Directed by: David Michôd

Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Joel Edgerton

France / Bulgaria, Romance / Drama

Directed by: Régis Wargnier

Cast: Sandrine Bonnaire, Oleg Menshikov

Germany / Luxembourg, Drama / Historical

Directed by: Florian Gallenberger

Cast: Emma Watson, Daniel Brühl

France, Drama / Historical

Directed by: Anh Hung Tran

Cast: Benoît Magimel, Juliette Binoche

USA, Drama / Romance

Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy, Anthony Mann

Cast: Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr

UK / Germany, Crime / Drama

Directed by: Bille August

Cast: Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Rush

USA, Adventure / Drama

Directed by: Carol Reed, Lewis Milestone

Cast: Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard

Italy / France, Drama / Historical

Directed by: Luchino Visconti

Cast: Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale

UK / USA, Drama / Romance

Directed by: Mike Newell

Cast: Lily James, Michiel Huisman

Denmark / Sweden, Drama / Historical

Directed by: Nikolaj Arcel

Cast: Alicia Vikander, Mads Mikkelsen

UK, Drama / Biography

Directed by: Shekhar Kapur

Cast: Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush

USA, Drama / Romance

Directed by: Darnell Martin

Cast: Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright

USA, Drama / Adventure

Directed by: Fred Niblo, Charles Brabin

Cast: Ramon Novarro, Francis X. Bushman

France / UK, Drama / Romance

Directed by: Miloš Forman

Cast: Colin Firth, Annette Bening

UK / Italy, Adventure / Historical

Directed by: Peter Duffell

Cast: Ben Cross, Amy Irving

France / Germany, Drama / Historical

Directed by: Patrice Chéreau

Cast: Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil

Serbia, Adventure / Romance

Directed by: Dragan Bjelogrlic

Cast: Milos Bikovic, Petar Strugar

France, Drama / Biography

Directed by: Bruno Nuytten

Cast: Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu

India, Romance / Historical

Directed by: Ashutosh Gowariker

Cast: Hrithik Roshan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

Spain, Drama / Historical

Directed by: Alejandro Amenábar

Cast: Rachel Weisz, Max Minghella

Czech Republic, Drama / Historical

Directed by: Milan Cieslar

Cast: Monika Hilmerová, Michał Sieczkowski

USA, Drama / Romance

Directed by: Cecil B. DeMille

Cast: Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature

UK / Germany, Romance / Drama

Directed by: Philip Kaufman

Cast: Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet

China / Hong Kong, Historical / Action

Directed by: Chao-Bin Su

Cast: Michelle Yeoh, Woo-seong Jeong

Hungary, War / Historical

Directed by: Krisztina Goda

Cast: Kata Dobó, Iván Fenyő

Italy / USA, Drama / Romance

Directed by: Federico Fellini

Cast: Donald Sutherland, Tina Aumont

UK / USA, Drama / Romance

Directed by: Michael Apted

Cast: Ioan Gruffudd, Michael Gambon

USA, Drama / Romance

Directed by: Rouben Mamoulian

Cast: Greta Garbo, John Gilbert

Soviet Union, Drama / Romance

Directed by: Sergei Solovyov

Cast: Sergej Bugajev, Tatyana Drubich

UK / USA, Musical / Drama

Directed by: Tom Hooper

Cast: Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe

USA, Drama / Romance

Directed by: Josef von Sternberg

Cast: Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge

USA / Malta, Drama / Historical

Directed by: Wolfgang Petersen

Cast: Brad Pitt, Eric Bana

USA, Drama / Historical

Directed by: Michael Hoffman

Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Sam Neill

USA / Japan, Drama / Historical

Directed by: Michael Mann

Cast: Johnny Depp, Christian Bale

South Korea, Historical / Biography

Directed by: Jin-ho Heo

Cast: Ye-jin Son, Hae-il Park

Greece / France, Drama / Historical

Directed by: Theodoros Angelopoulos

Cast: Alexandra Aidini, Nikos Poursanidis

France / Germany, War / Historical

Directed by: François Ozon

Cast: Pierre Niney, Paula Beer

Greece / USA, Drama / Historical

Directed by: Pantelis Voulgaris

Cast: Damian Lewis, Andréa Ferréol

USA / UK, Adventure / Drama

Directed by: Richard Thorpe

Cast: Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor

Hungary, Romance / Historical

Directed by: Zoltán Várkonyi

Cast: Imre Sinkovits, György Bárdy

UK / Italy, Drama / Historical

Directed by: Saul Dibb

Cast: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes

Finland / Russia, Drama / Historical

Directed by: Lauri Törhönen

Cast: Martin Bahne, Minna Haapkylä

South Korea, Historical / Drama

Directed by: Won-seok Lee

Cast: Suk-kyu Han, Dong-seok Ma

USA, Drama / Romance

Directed by: W. S. Van Dyke

Cast: Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power

Serbia, Comedy / Fantasy

Directed by: Uros Stojanovic

Cast: Katarina Radivojevic, Sonja Kolacaric

Hungary, Romance / Historical

Directed by: Zoltán Várkonyi

Cast: Imre Sinkovits, György Bárdy

Poland, Drama / Historical

Directed by: Waldemar Krzystek

Cast: Svetlana Khodchenkova, Lesław Żurek

China, Historical / Adventure

Directed by: Jingle Ma

Cast: Vicki Zhao, Jun Hu

USA, Western / Drama

Directed by: Michael Curtiz

Cast: Errol Flynn, Miriam Hopkins

Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Comedy / Romance

Directed by: Martin Frič

Cast: Otomar Korbelář, Vlasta Fabianová

Spain / USA, Romance / Historical

Directed by: John Turturro

Cast: Katherine Borowitz, Georgina Cates

UK / France, Romance / Comedy

Directed by: Tanya Wexler

Cast: Hugh Dancy, Maggie Gyllenhaal

UK / USA, Drama / Historical

Directed by: Jean-Marc Vallée

Cast: Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend

USA, Adventure / Historical

Directed by: James Whale

Cast: Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett

Switzerland, Documentary / Drama

Directed by: Stefan Haupt

Cast: Matthias Hungerbühler, Sven Schelker

Republic of Macedonia / Czech Republic, Drama / Historical

Directed by: Darko Mitrevski

Cast: Katarina Ivanovska, Sasko Kocev

France / UK, Drama / Biography

Directed by: Luc Besson

Cast: Michelle Yeoh, David Thewlis

Sweden / UK, Historical / Drama

Directed by: Peter Flinth

Cast: Joakim Nätterqvist, Sofia Helin

Serbia / Slovenia, Drama / Romance

Directed by: Srdjan Karanovic

Cast: Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Radivoje Bukvic

USA, Drama / Historical

Directed by: Michael Caton-Jones

Cast: Liam Neeson, Jessica Lange

India, Historical / Drama

Directed by: Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Cast: Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone

Hungary, Adventure / Drama

Directed by: Gábor Herendi

Cast: Ervin Nagy, Andrea Petrik

France / Italy, Romance / Historical

Directed by: Michel Boisrond

Cast: Philippe Noiret, Jean-Paul Belmondo

UK, Drama / Historical

Directed by: Justin Chadwick

Cast: Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson

France / Belgium, Drama / Historical

Directed by: Xavier Giannoli

Cast: Benjamin Voisin, Cécile de France

India, Drama / War

Directed by: K. Asif

Cast: Prithviraj Kapoor, Madhubala

Estonia / Soviet Union, Adventure / Historical

Directed by: Grigori Kromanov

Cast: Alexandr Goloborodko, Ingrid Andrina

USA, Western / Drama

Directed by: Samuel Fuller

Cast: Preston Foster, Barbara Britton

UK, Drama / War

Directed by: Sean Mathias

Cast: Clive Owen, Lothaire Bluteau

USA, Drama / Romance

Directed by: King Vidor

Cast: Yul Brynner, Gina Lollobrigida

South Korea, Historical / Drama

Directed by: Yoon-hyun Jang

Cast: Lorraine Song, Ji-tae Yoo

Hungary, Adventure / Historical

Directed by: Miklós Markos

Cast: Gábor Koncz, Gábor Agárdi

USA, Drama / Romance

Directed by: Warren Beatty

Cast: Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton

India, Drama / Historical

Directed by: Rakesh Omprakash Mehra

Cast: Aamir Khan, Siddharth

USA, Drama / Historical

Directed by: D.W. Griffith

Cast: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh

Austria, Comedy / Historical

Directed by: Ernst Marischka

Cast: Romy Schneider, Adrian Hoven

USA, Adventure / Drama

Directed by: Rowland V. Lee

Cast: Robert Donat, Elissa Landi

USA, War / Action

Directed by: Michael Bay

Cast: Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett

Finland, War / Drama

Directed by: Olli Saarela

Cast: Peter Franzén, Irina Björklund

USA, Historical / Romance

Directed by: Anthony Mann

Cast: Robert Cummings, Richard Basehart

Denmark, Drama / Historical

Directed by: Daniel Dencik

Cast: Jakob Oftebro, Danica Curcic

Japan, Drama / Historical

Directed by: Isao Yukisada

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Yuko Takeuchi

South Korea, Drama / Historical

Directed by: Ha Yu

Cast: In-sung Jo, Jin-mo Joo

India / German Empire, Historical / Romance

Directed by: Franz Osten

Cast: Himanshu Rai, Enakashi Rama Rao

UK / Ireland, Drama / Romance

Directed by: John Madden

Cast: Judi Dench, Billy Connolly

Italy / Portugal, Drama / Historical

Directed by: Vicente Aranda

Cast: Pilar López de Ayala, Daniele Liotti

UK, Drama / Romance

Directed by: Amma Asante

Cast: Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Matthew Goode

Germany, Drama / Historical

Directed by: Volker Schlöndorff

Cast: Bibiana Beglau, Martin Wuttke